首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. Winridge Forest Railway Park When they started, the family decided to
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. Winridge Forest Railway Park When they started, the family decided to
admin
2014-09-29
36
问题
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Winridge Forest Railway Park
When they started, the family decided to open the park only when
woman: For the second in our series about locally-run businesses, we meet Simon Winridge, co-founder of the hugely-successful Winridge Forest Railway Park. Welcome, Simon. Now, perhaps you can begin by telling us a little bit about how it all started.
man: Well, during the 1970s, my wife, Liz and I had just acquired 80 acres of sheep-farming land, and we decided to settle down and have children. Pretty soon we had a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Duncan. The place was wonderful for the kids: they particularly loved trains and gradually built up an enormous network of miniature railway track. I began to develop larger-scale models of locomotives but we didn’t think anything more of it until I went on a trip to a theme park near Birmingham and decided we could do a much better job! So we set up a small one ourselves based on the miniature railway and we opened to the public for just a month that year. 1984 - in July - our driest month - because our children said they didn’t want our quests to have a miserable, wet visit. I dealt with Park business and Liz carried on with the farm work. It soon became clear that we were onto a winner. We began to extend the railway track and lay it among more interesting landscape by planting trees, which in turn attracted more wildlife, and by making cuttings through the rock.
Nowadays, we’re open all year round and we’re pleased to say that Winridge is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the area - with 50,000 visitors a year - a million and a half people have been through our doors since we opened.
All these visitors mean we have had to expand our operation and it’s now a truly family concern. I’m near to retirement age so I only concern myself with looking after the mechanical side of things - keeping the trains going. Liz now devotes all her energies to recruiting and supporting the large squadron of workers, which keep the place running smoothly. We’re really pleased that after some years away teaching, Sarah has now returned to the park and makes sure the visitors are kept fed and watered, which keeps her pretty busy as you can imagine. Our son, Duncan, has been a stalwart of the park for the last ten years, taking over from me in the area of construction - and I’ll say a little bit more about that in a moment - and his new wife. Judith, has also joined the team in charge of retail. That’s becoming a tremendous growth area for us - a lot of people want to buy souvenirs.
woman: So have you finished your development of the site for the moment?
man: Not at all! We’re constantly looking for ways to offer more to our visitors.
The railway remains the central feature and there’s now 1.2 kilometres of the line laid but we’d like to lay more. Because of the geology of the area, our greatest problem is digging tunnels. But we’re gradually overcoming that. We’re also very pleased with a new installation of the Go-Kart arena which is 120 square metres in area. Again the problem is the geology; we had to level the mounds on the track for safety reasons. We wanted to enable 5-12 year olds to use the go-karts. And the main attraction here is the Formula 1 Kart. We’ve known fights to break out over who gets it! And then finally to our most recent development which is the landscaped ...
选项
A、the weather was expected to be good.
B、the children weren’t at school.
C、there were fewer farming commitments.
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/kcAO777K
本试题收录于:
雅思听力题库雅思(IELTS)分类
0
雅思听力
雅思(IELTS)
相关试题推荐
Havingalargerassortmenttochoosefromincreasesconsumers’expectationsaboutmatchingtheirpreferences.Theheightenedexp
Inearly-twentieth-centuryEngland,itwasfashionabletoclaimthatonlyacompletelynewstyleofwritingcouldaddressaworl
MigratorysongbirdsbreedinginEurasia’stemperateforestsdependonasummerflushofinsects,particularlycaterpillars,tof
Receivedfeministwisdomhasconceivedofhistoryasamaleenclavedevoidofwomansubjectsandpractitioners,particularlybef
IntroductionandInterviewIntroduction(compulsory)Interview(choose1)Let’stalkaboutwhereyoulive.Whi
Whydidyouchoosethatcareer?
Describeanimportantletteryouwrotetosomeone.Youshouldsay:whenyouwrotethisletterwhomyouwrotetowhyyouwroteit
DoyouthinkinternationalsportseventsliketheOlympicscanpromotemutualunderstandingamongnationsorpeoples?
Theuniversityshouldacceptequalnumbersofmaleandfemalestudentsineverysubject.Doyouagreeordisagree?
Usingdataisacomplexbusiness.Wellbeforeachampionship,sportsscientistsandcoachesstarttopreparetheathletebydeve
随机试题
结合具体的文艺创作实例,论述意象的生产。
素有“诉讼程序的奴隶”之称的是_______。
2010年初,甲某在某县农贸市场趁人多拥挤之机,将手伸向乙某衣包,被乙某之妻丙某发现。丙某正要喊。甲某怕事情败露,威胁丙某道:“别喊,否则捅死你。”丙某见甲某左手提一把刀便没敢吭声,甲某摸走乙某包内的2000元钱逃离现场。甲某的行为:()
漏电保护器又称漏电开关,是用于在电路或电器绝缘受损发生时对地短路时防止人身触电和电器火灾。
企业应付给因解除与职工的劳务关系给予的补偿不应通过“应付职工薪酬”科目核算。()
“改革开放不是一蹴而就的”,改革开放不是一次轻松浪漫的旅行,而是一次决定中华民族历史命运的伟大远航,它有_________的时刻,也时常充满惊涛骇浪。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是()。
简述五四新文化运动时期中国新闻业务上的进展。(人大2006年研)
有如下程序段int*p,a=1;p=&a;*p=10;则变量a的值为
请在【答题】菜单下选择【进入考生文件夹】命令,并按照题目要求完成下面的操作。注意:以下的义件必须都保存在考生文件夹下。小李是北京某政法学院教务处的工作人员,法律系提交了2012级四个法律专业教学班的期末成绩单,为更好地掌握各个教学班学习
A、Itmustsellatleast1000productseveryyear.B、Ithasbeenestablishedforaboutfourteenyears.C、Ithasbeengrantedmor
最新回复
(
0
)